Comments on: Lohri, The Dawn of New year in Punjab http://www.sadapunjab.com/punjabi/lohri-the-dawn-of-new-year-in-punjab.html Mirror Of Punjab To The World Tue, 22 May 2012 12:03:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3 By: gagandeep maan http://www.sadapunjab.com/punjabi/lohri-the-dawn-of-new-year-in-punjab.html#comment-14522 gagandeep maan Sun, 23 Aug 2009 15:25:28 +0000 http://www.sadapunjab.com/punjabi/lohri-the-dawn-of-new-year-in-punjab.html#comment-14522 I most like this festival I most like this festival

]]> By: NITASHA SINGH http://www.sadapunjab.com/punjabi/lohri-the-dawn-of-new-year-in-punjab.html#comment-10595 NITASHA SINGH Tue, 12 May 2009 19:43:46 +0000 http://www.sadapunjab.com/punjabi/lohri-the-dawn-of-new-year-in-punjab.html#comment-10595 like also but i want to know about lohari why we all sikhs enjoy wht is the sepical in lohri in our religion by the way ki asni PUNJABI nu bhull gaye isi site da naam hai sada PUNJAB ki ehho oh hi PUNJAB hai jithe PUNJAB pichhe sade GURU SAHIBAINA ne te GURU DE SAJYE HOYE KHALSE ne apniya jaana nishawar kar dityan meri nimaani ji di eh ho haath jod ke benti hai ke PUNJABI nu eddain na maro sada PUNJAB vasda PUNJAB like also but i want to know about lohari why we all sikhs enjoy wht is the sepical in lohri in our religion
by the way ki asni PUNJABI nu bhull gaye isi site da naam hai sada PUNJAB ki ehho oh hi PUNJAB hai jithe PUNJAB pichhe sade GURU SAHIBAINA ne te GURU DE SAJYE HOYE KHALSE ne apniya jaana nishawar kar dityan meri nimaani ji di eh ho haath jod ke benti hai ke PUNJABI nu eddain na maro sada PUNJAB vasda PUNJAB

]]> By: rajaspreet http://www.sadapunjab.com/punjabi/lohri-the-dawn-of-new-year-in-punjab.html#comment-10354 rajaspreet Mon, 27 Apr 2009 08:46:19 +0000 http://www.sadapunjab.com/punjabi/lohri-the-dawn-of-new-year-in-punjab.html#comment-10354 very goood very goood

]]> By: Hardeep singh virdi http://www.sadapunjab.com/punjabi/lohri-the-dawn-of-new-year-in-punjab.html#comment-8696 Hardeep singh virdi Sat, 07 Feb 2009 07:46:09 +0000 http://www.sadapunjab.com/punjabi/lohri-the-dawn-of-new-year-in-punjab.html#comment-8696 i like lohri the most enjoyable festival in amritsar(punjab) i like lohri the most enjoyable festival in amritsar(punjab)

]]> By: rohit arora http://www.sadapunjab.com/punjabi/lohri-the-dawn-of-new-year-in-punjab.html#comment-4620 rohit arora Fri, 31 Oct 2008 18:07:05 +0000 http://www.sadapunjab.com/punjabi/lohri-the-dawn-of-new-year-in-punjab.html#comment-4620 ) LOHRI: lohri , which comes on the last day of poh (December-january), is another extremely popular festival,celebrated in northen india especially punjab,Haryana,himachal,delhi & jammu etc..A few days before it arrives youngsters get together in groups & go round their localities singing folk-songs connected with lohri & collecting fuel & money for the bonfire.This is a special day for making offerings to fire.When fire is lit up in the evening, orthodox men & women go round it , pour offerings in to it, and bow before it in reverence. The first lohri for a new bride, or a new-born babe, is enthusiastically celebrated, and sweets are distributed.One of the stories behind the celebration of this festival goes like this; Some where between gujaranwala & Sialkot in Pakistan now, there was a thick forest called rakh.There used to live a Muslim dacoit named dulla bhatti, the robinhood of Punjab.He was brave, generous and provided maximum help to everyone in distress.During the reign of jahagir ,the mughal officer wanted to carry a middle class Punjabi HINDU girl forcibely.The girls father was extremely worried and sought the protection of dulla bhatti.Dulla at once got her married to a young Punjabi hindu boy at a simple ceremony in the forest. He lit the sacred fire in keeping with the hindu custom.Since there was no priest to chant the holy mantras,he broke in to a hilarious song composed extempore to add chear to the occasion.This song is sung even today on the occasion. The song goes: Sunder mundriye ho Tera kaun bachera ho Dhulla bhati wala ho Dulle dhi vaiahi ho Ser shaker pai ho………………………… ) LOHRI:
lohri , which comes on the last day of poh (December-january), is another extremely popular festival,celebrated in northen india especially punjab,Haryana,himachal,delhi & jammu etc..A few days before it arrives youngsters get together in groups & go round their localities singing folk-songs connected with lohri & collecting fuel & money for the bonfire.This is a special day for making offerings to fire.When fire is lit up in the evening, orthodox men & women go round it , pour offerings in to it, and bow before it in reverence. The first lohri for a new bride, or a new-born babe, is enthusiastically celebrated, and sweets are distributed.One of the stories behind the celebration of this festival goes like this;
Some where between gujaranwala & Sialkot in Pakistan now, there was a thick forest called rakh.There used to live a Muslim dacoit named dulla bhatti, the robinhood of Punjab.He was brave, generous and provided maximum help to everyone in distress.During the reign of jahagir ,the mughal officer wanted to carry a middle class Punjabi HINDU girl forcibely.The girls father was extremely worried and sought the protection of dulla bhatti.Dulla at once got her married to a young Punjabi hindu boy at a simple ceremony in the forest.
He lit the sacred fire in keeping with the hindu custom.Since there was no priest to chant the holy mantras,he broke in to a hilarious song composed extempore to add chear to the occasion.This song is sung even today on the occasion. The song goes:
Sunder mundriye ho
Tera kaun bachera ho
Dhulla bhati wala ho
Dulle dhi vaiahi ho
Ser shaker pai ho…………………………

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